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best perennial chicken feed

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chickens

chicken coops/runs/tractors/paddocks/pens/etc.

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chickens

Does keeping chickens actually save money?

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making the best of raising cornish rock cross

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Excessive heat warning...keeping chickens cool

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Chicken Feed - What options exist?

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Maggot Feeding Station for Poultry

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best egg laying breed of chicken

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Does deep litter work in the extreme cold?

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alternative feeds for chickens

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Frozen water woes

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Chicken Feeder Design - What do you use?

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In defense of a Rooster

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What is in a perch? - Poultry Perch Ideas

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forage for chickens

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chickens

Chicken Manure and Litter

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Chicken winter greenhouse

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Fed up with this 2 story metal 6-box nesting box!

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Avian flu: When/if to freak out?

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Depressed Elderly Chicken Wishes to Retire as Indoor Pet Chicken

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Did your coop design change after you got chickens?

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Do you actually need a chicken coop?

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Bad boy rooster!

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How should you triage/treat a sick chicken?

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Two more birds down

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Incubate an egg with your body warmth

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Meat chicken tractor turf removal

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A theory for eggs in the winter

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Muddy Run Remedies

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How do you balance ventilation and warmth in a poultry house?

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Growing your own chicken food.

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Bumble foot

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Can you really grow all of your chickens feed?

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Coop remodel 2.0

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Off grid freeze prep

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Chicken Molting

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Broody box

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chickens

What small animals are easiest for a beginner homestead?

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Simple fly reduction

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Chicken garden bed rotation

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critter care

Pine Shaving Bedding - What type is right for you?

21 hours ago 10 replies 1 4 12

chickens

chicken coops/runs/tractors/paddocks/pens/etc.

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Raising Burbs in the Burbs- A How To Guide

1 week ago 2 replies 17

ideas for protecting amendments and mulch around perennials from chickens

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Chicken Coop Door Too Big

1 week ago 5 replies 6

How should you triage/treat a sick chicken?

2 weeks ago 14 replies 1 22

woodworking

Vegetable oil for the chicken coop?

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chickens

Northern Fowl Mites (Ornithonyssus sylviarum)

2 weeks ago 1 reply 1 2

Chicken Molting

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chickens

Chicken Manure and Litter

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How do you keep chickens and a garden working well together?

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chickens

Red mites and compost/mulch

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Coop remodel 2.0

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How Many Chickens for Profit? A Homesteader's Realistic Breakdown

3 weeks ago 5 replies 1

chickens

Interest in a Southern New England Landrace Collaborative?

1 month ago 9 replies 2 4

What is happening to my chickens?

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Need some help with poultry photos for my site

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Tips/Tricks/Q&A on incubation, incubation equipment and post hatch care

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Adventures in incubation

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Web app for incubating chicken/duck/quail eggs — built it myself, curious what this community thinks

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Nesting box rollaway rebuild

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Foraging for your chicken

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Permies Poll: Raised Chicken Coop vs Walk-in Chicken Coop

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How do you balance ventilation and warmth in a poultry house?

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Red Blinking Light Chicken Protector

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shelters and habitat

Woods Fresh-Air coop build

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Ground covers that are vigorous yet still controllable, ideas?

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chickens

What small animals are easiest for a beginner homestead?

2 months ago 10 replies 1 4

critter care

How do you store livestock feed?

2 months ago 15 replies

critter care

Feed bins - How do you store livestock feed?

2 months ago 31 replies 1 10

Alfalfa in the chicken yard

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weird things chickens have done

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Looks like a great video on free chicken feed

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Bare and swollen chicken fluff help.

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Simple fly reduction

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projects

Our new henhouse -- a diary of progress

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Are Black Soldier Fly Larvae a bust??

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Muddy Run Remedies

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meaningless drivel

Victory Flocks

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how to NOT raise chickens

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pep animal care

Harvest a Chicken - PEP BB animal care.sand.chickenharvest

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It's all about the chickens

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Unpopular Opinion: How to Solve Winter Egg Laying Problems

3 months ago 2 replies 1

Rare rooster

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